The Tottenham flop who partied six nights a week in London

It was clear to everyone who watched him that the Ghana midfielder was a talented player, but things didn’t seem to work for him at White Hart Lane.

Boateng only made 14 Premier League appearances for Tottenham between 2007 and 2009, before being shipped out to Portsmouth.

After two spells at Milan and Schalke, Boateng is now playing for La Liga minnows Las Palmas. And in a revealing interview with Sid Lowe for The Guardian, Boateng has cast some light on why he struggled at Tottenham.

“Every night I was out until six,” he said.

“I was like 95 kilos, swollen from the drinking and bad food. I said: ‘This can’t be me, I don’t want to be that guy. I have something inside: I’m a football player.”

Boateng appeared to be living the life of an under-graduate student at UCL. He continued:

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